Christ in Us The great Christian thinker, Ravi Zacharias, describes what is happening in the Western world today. “Naturalism leaves the spirit unfulfilled and sheer materialism leaves one weary. The vacuum created by these realities is what has sent Western culture foraging into Eastern spirituality to look for a way to satisfy the spirit. The
Critical People Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be honest. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor. So the spies questioned him: “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is
David Brainerd When news reached a notoriously ferocious tribe of American Indians that a very pale “paleface” was travelling alone in their direction, a group of warriors set out immediately to find and kill this uninvited intruder. Tracking their way silently and swiftly through the deep forests they knew so well, it was not long
Don’t Like the Music This is an actual printed complaint about contemporary church music. The wording has been somewhat contemporised. “There are several reasons for opposing it: 1. It is too new 2. It is often worldly, even blasphemous 3. The new Christian music is not as pleasant as the more established style 4. Because
God’s Justice ‘In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commends all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead’ Acts 17:30,31
God’s Values But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ … Philippians 3:20 There are two ways of understanding this verse, and each reflects a completely different worldview. The first worldview sees the earth as basically a bad place, filled with temptation and evil.
Holy Opportunities Bill Hybels is one of the most recognisable Christians in America as well as in much of the world. He founded and continues to lead Willow Creek Community Church in the United States. He wrote one time of his wife “Some time ago Lynne was facing a deadline with a book she was
Jesus – All of God For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ … Colossians 2:9,10. Paul wrote these words to new Christians who were being taught that receiving Christ was not enough. God had more of Himself to give than
Kitchen Table Logic The great Christian thinker, Ravi Zacharias, describes what is happening in the Western world today. “Naturalism leaves the spirit unfulfilled and sheer materialism leaves one weary. The vacuum created by these realities is what has sent Western culture foraging into Eastern spirituality to look for a way to satisfy the spirit. The
Leave All Behind As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him. Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us …” Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want me to
